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Shopify restructured its contracting party and dispute resolution framework to specify different Shopify entities and courts based on merchant billing address. Previously, the terms designated a single contracting party and exclusive jurisdiction (Ontario for US/Canada, Singapore for Asia Pacific, Ireland for EMEA). The updated terms now present a table mapping billing regions to specific Shopify corporate entities, their registered offices, and corresponding courts with exclusive jurisdiction. Additionally, Shopify reorganized its service-specific terms sections, moving Gift Cards to a separate subsection and renumbering Audiences and Checkout Extensibility provisions.
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The updated terms specify which Shopify corporate entity you contract with and which courts have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes, based on your store's billing address. Previously, the terms designated contracting parties and courts by region but in separate sections; the revised structure consolidates this information in a single table and introduces Shopify Technology (USA) Inc. as a contracting party for US-based merchants. The practical effect is that merchants in different regions now have explicit clarity on their contracting counterparty and the specific court system that will handle disputes, though the geographic assignment of courts remains substantially similar to prior language.
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Contracting Party and Forum table
Consolidates regional contracting party and exclusive jurisdiction assignments into a single table; introduces Shopify Technology (USA) Inc. for US merchants and clarifies that Shopify Inc. may act as billing agent.
Forum Selection
Explicitly states that disputes can only be brought in courts listed in the table and that each party agrees to that jurisdiction without objection.
Service-specific terms reorganization
Moved Gift Cards to a separate subsection (9.12) and renumbered Audiences and Checkout Extensibility provisions; no material change to the underlying service terms.
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2026-10-11 · Feed summary edited · summary regenerated by summarize_events
Previous text Restructured contracting party assignments and dispute forums by billing region; clarifies which Shopify entity and courts apply to each geographic market.
2026-10-11 · Impact summary edited · summary regenerated by summarize_events
Previous text The updated terms clarify the legal identity of the Shopify entity you contract with and establish which courts have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve disputes, depending on your store's billing address. Previously, the terms specified exclusive jurisdiction by region (Ontario for US/Canada, Singapore for Asia Pacific, Ireland for EMEA and other areas). The revised structure presents this information in a table format and adds explicit language stating that disputes can only be brought in the courts listed for your region, with those courts having exclusive jurisdiction. Shopify Inc. may act as a billing agent for other Shopify entities to collect fees and remit taxes in some jurisdictions. You can review the contracting party and forum table in Section 13 to confirm which entity and courts apply to your store based on your billing address.
2026-10-11 · Summary edited · summary regenerated by summarize_events
Previous text Shopify restructured its contracting party and dispute resolution framework in an update detected on August 1, 2026. Previously, the terms assigned a single Shopify contracting party based on billing region and directed all disputes to courts in Ontario (Canada), Singapore, or Ireland depending on location. The updated terms reorganize this into a table format, clarifying which Shopify entity serves as the contracting party for each region (US/Canada, Asia Pacific, or other jurisdictions), and replace the exclusive jurisdiction language with a requirement that disputes be brought only in the courts specified in that table. Additionally, Shopify reorganized service-specific terms sections, moving Gift Cards language and restructuring references to Audiences and Checkout Extensibility provisions.
2026-10-07 · Change line edited · change line rewritten to the 2026-10-07 template: no detection date, no sentence counts
Previous text Shopify updated their Shopify Terms of Service on August 01, 2026. Change detected: 1 sentence(s) added, 2 sentence(s) removed, 16 sentence(s) modified. Document contained 458 sentences after update.
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Shopify restructured its contracting party and forum selection provisions to map billing regions to specific corporate entities and courts. The change introduces Shopify Technology (USA) Inc. as a contracting party for US merchants and clarifies …
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